i want eyebrows

2007-12-24T11:50:00.000-05:00

merry Christmas johanne.

messy eats

2007-12-17T16:32:00.000-05:00

for the first time today i felt like a barbarian... a cavewoman... a warrior resting at a fireplace.

so i was eating chicken today- i microwaved chicken wing leftovers. and for some reason, i was so hungry i started to use my hands while eating the chicken.. savagely incising the meat, as if i haven't eaten for days or years. the meat juice was all over my hands and all over my mouth. i didn't even bother using a fork or napkin.. i just smeared chicken scraps with my sleaves, not thinking twice about it. and then i savagly started to pick meat off the bones with my fingers..

dang. i guess this is what happens when you don't eat right for two days straight during finals.

2007-11-28T22:45:00.000-05:00

jo are you alive?
what are you up to these days in corea corea?

do you miss me n eun? hardly? GASP!- oh and are you actually going to meet up with your "arch enemy" in seoul corea? i see she left her number on your fb wall.

ooh, what is up with lisa? is she coming to teach with you as well? neway let me know!

me? ummmmm, i still have my top 280 test this friday (this will be my third and final time taking it) and my seminar redo on the 14th of december.

next week is my roomie's birthday so i'm going out for her birthday

omg thanksgiving was a blast. i went to st. marks, got trashed, puked two times (once in the subway, and the second time in the bus). had to beg for money, got on the wrong bus, and got home mega late. o man. happy thanksgiving to me. but all in all, it was quite the memory.

obtw, i have a boyfriend now, and his name is ryan.

fart story #3

2007-11-12T19:19:00.000-05:00

omg. i cannot breathe.

i ate three plates of everything indian in an Indian restuarant (Tandoori) and they had the buffet specials for 7 bucks-- and of course i had to go - i pratically devoured everything.

and i just farted.

and OMG-- it smells sooooooooooooooooooo stinky. indian farts stink so bad -- i even gagged/almost fainted.

okay, time to study.

i am definitely looking forward to thanksgiving week.

fart story #2

2007-10-30T00:18:00.000-04:00

so im at work right? and im taking in prescriptions from various patients, ordering them neatly in little baskets, and getting ready to type it in the computer system... and just nonchalantely, i let out this huge, loud clear POP sound outta my butt.

and this time i know for sure my pharmacist heard me. because he was literally 2 inches away from me.

WHY ME WHY ME? i seriously didn't know what to do... was i supposed to laugh? continue what i was doing? pretend it was someone else?

i don't know why i get so gasy at work. i can't control my stomach!

neway,
LONG TIME NO TALK HO-ANNE! how is korea? wonderful? i hope you are having a blast, and post some new pics will ya?

booking for spring break

2007-10-18T21:55:00.001-04:00

it's official.

tommorrow we will be booking our tickets for spring break 2008.

we're going to mey-hee-ko, and i'm gonna get me some bahama-mama's. yummm.

no, we are not pill-counters.

2007-10-10T14:58:00.000-04:00

them: what do pharmacists really do? do you guys just count pills? or work only at cvs?
me: here we go again...

-- i get that question a lot. and to tell you the truth, i get really surprised that people still delusionally believe that pharmacists just spend their days counting pills. haha, kinda funny, 'i'd say. i was hoping that people would give a little credit to pharmacists than just labeling us as 'pill counters."

but i'll give you a little preview on what pharmacists do-- or what our scope of knowledge entails of.

so for example, let's say we are dealing with seizure patients. not only do we have different types of seizures, but we also have a variety of medications we can use to treat these different types. So let's say that the patient has a generalized tonic-clonic seizure---> that narrows down to the sodium channel blockers (since it has the best efficacy). and what are the sodium channel blocker meds? well, i'm glad you asked!
1. carbamazepine
2. lamotrigine
3. oxcarbazepine
4. phenytoin
5. topiramate
6. zonisamide

So now, all of these medications can treat the generalized seizure. BUT (hold on, it's not THAT easy), all of these medications have specific side effects as well. so let's say that the patient has other co-morbidities such as hypercholestermia and are taking some statins that are 3A4 substrates. Then carbamazepine wouldn't be a good option for that patient because it is a 3A4 inducer. Lamotrigine can cause severe rashes (Steven's Johnson Syndrome) and if that patient took lamotrigine before and was taken off, it is not appropriate to put that patient on lamotrigine again. Phenytoin has a narrow therapeutic index, so we would have to carefully monitor the serum levels to detect any toxicity (tremor, confusion, etc). i can go on and on and on and on about drug interactions, side effects, etc. but then, i'd be late for work... and we wouldn't want that would we.

so yea, that's a little tiny microscopic portion of what pharmacists do and have to know.

so no- we just don't count pills.
and no, not all pharmacists work retail.
and surprisingly, we actually do more work than just that.

man, i better ace this friday's test on bipolar disease.

YEAYUh!!!

daily rambling on a sunday evening.

2007-10-07T21:14:00.000-04:00

im in the suny library, and there are some goodlooking gumdangees around.

i dunno why, but i keep sniffing the inside of my fingernail, especially my middle finger. and im not just sniffing it... im ferociously sniffing the heck outta of it. it smells like rotten coffee... but i kinda like it.

and i'm pissed at myself for not thinking of this earlier... but i should have named my title--> eyewanteyebrows instead. UGH.

oh, and hi jo! coco told me to tell you that he doesn't miss you at all.

ok that is my rambling for today. thankQ.

omg jo.

2007-09-27T22:02:00.000-04:00

omg jo. you have to watch this

http://www.plazarugs.com/cut-a-rug/

check out number 9.
(but you have to watch it at least 2 times -- trust me, i couldn't stop laughing- especially when he popped right back up and fell on his back)

after that, check out number 11. not as funny as number 9... but still funny-- (esp. in slowww motttionnn).

unsnap it.

2007-09-26T15:55:00.001-04:00

nothing feels more refreshing when you come back from work or school, and you immediately unsnap that bra strap that was constricting your upper body forever. today, my boobies were seriously crying out Freeeedom when i took that wretched thing off of me.

i immediately put over a loose gray shirt (bra-less of course) and started prancing around in my room. it was the best feel.

i utterly hate bras. even the sound of it makes me cringe. braaaas. ew.

oinG?

2007-09-23T20:33:00.000-04:00

couldn't sleep last night in regards to last post.
my cortisol hormones (which are stress hormones, for you non-science folks out there) were skyrocketing high at night... i was fuming, tossing and turning in bed like a very agitated salad.
and to top it off, this morning i woke up and saw a long, thin hair coming out of my nose pore. what the heck is that alla bout?
i just love my life.

pulling out hair.

2007-09-22T19:50:00.000-04:00

i am so livid right now.

i don't understand what the complication is.

i've already worked by butt off for 24 hours-- driving prolly over a total of 300 miles to the pharmacy i work at in 3 weeks, and im still not in their system.

WHAT? (pulling out hair)

i've been working for free? (pulling out more hair)

blasphemy. i never work for free. (unless it deals with cute children or by forced reasons).

it just makes me angry that a simple task like putting your own employees into the system payroll is so difficult and deemed impossible.

so i ask the store manager, "am i in the system"
he replies, "um... i don't know. you're in a limbo right now. you should prolly go ask luane" --

what do you mean by "limbo?" why don't you know? and who is luane?

i want my money. jo, i think we just have bad luck with the bling.

got an egg yolk?

2007-09-21T01:39:00.000-04:00

if you run out of face masks, and you are in dire need of some right now, go to your fridge and whip out an egg from a carton.

crack the egg, and take only the yolk out and put it in a bowl.

mix it like crazy and make sure it is bright yellow--- and not red. (that means that the chick was half-born. not too good.)

put a little cornstarch or flour and mix it.

wahla. you have a home-made face mask.

and let me tell you. i did it today, and after the yolk gooze dried up on my face, i felt like a famous actress coming out from her botox appointment.

OMG. my face is soooo "tang-tang" hae! =)

but neway, i love homemade face masks. it's free, and eazy breezy beautiful cover girl!!

i am a farting machine.

2007-09-19T22:06:00.000-04:00

i've been mega gasy lately.

so today at work, it was just me and the pharmacist. (whom by the way, is an awesome person to work with- everything is so lax and even if i am screwy at times he still forgives me and is so nice about it. Oh, and last week he bought us pizza too!)

so i was busy handling prescriptions and as he passed by i let out a loud fart. but it was one of those poppy ones.

i'm telling you... it was a crisp sounding clear P-O-P-- preceded by other little subsequent pops. kinda like pop-rocks... but more defined.

i wonder if he noticed.

anyway, that is my embarrassing moment for today.

no more tickets = no more stress

2007-09-17T21:40:00.000-04:00

okay. so now i am officially ticket-free... well, for now.

for the past 3 weeks, my mind has been plagued by my 2 tickets - one for parking in nyc and one for going in the wrong direction on a one way in albany.

toopid, toopid tickets.

i'm telling you. i am cursed. cursed by the driving demon. there's a devil out there somewhere who loathes me.

but now i am free. the second one was just payed today at court 9 AM in the morning. My 3 point moving violation was dropped and i only had to pay a 75 dollar fine.

woopideedoo. let's see how my ticketless days last. but im definitely going to enjoy this glorious moment by treating myself with wonderful pizza. yum.

no suitemates = free food

2007-09-16T00:36:00.000-04:00

with my suitemates gone for the weekend, i took advantage of this special occassion by diggin in the fridge, taking a bit of their food- just a little so they won't notice- for example
- couple of ham slices
- a bread
- just a sip of lemonade
- more ham slices
- a pickle
- 5 pieces of micro-wavable chicken nuggets
- and some chips

and raising the room temperature to 80 degrees. ( i like my apartment nice and toasty).

i was also able to turn on my music, 'baby when the lights go out' to full volume, and screamed my lungs out to the lyrics.

after i showered, i even walked to my room ... towel-less. *gasp*

and i enjoyed every moment of it.

N-O means NO!

2007-09-14T18:18:00.000-04:00

just wanted to clarify to the fellas that no means no.
the 2 letter word does not convey 'just maybe, well yes, i guess so, okay, sure, why not!"
the word entails clarity, carrying it a terse style for a specific reason-- because it is what it is - a direct answer/response - illustrating NO ambiguity whatsoever.

it's easy as 1,2,3
simple as do, ray, me
ABC, 1-2-3 baby you and me!

i'm writing this because a peer of mine (supposedly he is in love with me) calls me out on a friday night to have a drink with him. (note: i was actually returning his phone call 3 hours after he called during naptime- a daily ritual of mine). so being the kind-hearted girl i am, i return his phone calls, being FULLY aware that he would probably be disheartened, drinking his sorrows away at a shallow, run-down bar in downtown.

but uh-oh, bad news buddy! Bombarbed with a seminar presentation, my top 280 drug test, and my two other lecture tests (pharmacotherapy 3 and pharm administration), my Friday night was unavailable for play. it was only me, my desk, and my laptop. (oh, and my home-made milkshake)

so i told him, "no thank you" (while telling him my unfortunate situation)

but he kept on begging, calling me names, telling me i was mean, tempting me with free drinks, and putting the "guilt" trip on me.

fuming with rage, i did not understand. how was i mean?
1) i returned his phone call
2) i did not give excuses- in fact, i actually did have a good reason
3) i even told him, "next time, i promise"

so un-gentlemenlike!
or as stephanie from Full House would retort, "HOW RUDE!"

if he really cared, he would have understood my situation. obviously, he has impaired hearing, blinded by the "L" imprinted on his forehead. oh well! next time buddy! or maybe never! =)